An izakaya-style Japanese bar and restaurant on Manukau Road in Epsom, Auckland, where small tapas-style dishes are meant to be shared. The restaurant runs a monthly Sushi Night with over 40 sushi varieties, and a monthly Sushi Lunch on the third Saturday in daylight, when the menu is given over to sushi. It also offers bento boxes for Waitangi Day, Anzac Day and Easter, a Shokado bento lunch, and omakase takeaway for home. Catering is available for homes, offices and picnic groups.
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 6pm, with last orders at 9pm. We hear the restaurant closed from 7 September to 5 October 2026 for a trip to Japan, and reopened on Tuesday 6 October. The website gives no prices, parking or dog details and quotes no customer comments, so there is no view here on what diners say. Open Locally counts one other Japanese restaurant within a kilometre, KATSU-TEI in Alexandra Park, 0.9 km away, which has no rating shown.